{"id":403364,"date":"2019-04-19T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/annexation-of-west-bank-may-provide-key-to-unlocking-netanyahus-legal-troubles\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:03:13","slug":"annexation-of-west-bank-may-provide-key-to-unlocking-netanyahus-legal-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/annexation-of-west-bank-may-provide-key-to-unlocking-netanyahus-legal-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Annexation of West Bank May Provide Key to Unlocking Netanyahu\u2019s Legal Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister.<\/p>\n

The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud party broke regulations \u2013 and possibly the law \u2013 by arming 1,200 activists with hidden cameras, to film polling stations in communities belonging to Israel\u2019s large Palestinian minority.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu justified the move by saying it would ensure the election was \u201ckosher\u201d. Yet again, Israel\u2019s prime minister made it clear that the country\u2019s 1.7 million Palestinian citizens were unwelcome interlopers in what he regards as an exclusively Jewish political process.<\/p>\n

The PR firm behind the stunt admitted another motive. The goal was for the cameras to be quickly discovered by police and thereby scare the one in five citizens who are Palestinian into staying home. A low turnout by Palestinian voters in Israel would ensure a stronger parliamentary majority for\u00a0 Netanyahu\u2019s coalition.<\/p>\n

In fact, slightly less than half of the minority cast a ballot, although the reason was probably as much down to their exasperation at a series of ever more right-wing Netanyahu governments as it was a fear of surveillance at polling stations.<\/p>\n

When coalition negotiations this week are complete, Netanyahu is likely to head the most ultra-nationalist government in Israel\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}